Three Irish writers have made the 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist for literature.
Colum McCann, Donal Ryan and Colm Toibin are among the 13 authors named today.
The selection was made by a panel of five judges from 151 titles.
A shortlist will be revealed in September, with the winner to be announced in October.
The 2013 longlist in full is:
Author Title (Publisher)
Tash Aw Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate)
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names (Chatto & Windus)
Eleanor Catton The Luminaries (Granta)
Jim Crace Harvest (Picador)
Eve Harris The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Sandstone Press)
Richard House The Kills (Picador)
Jhumpa Lahiri The Lowland (Bloomsbury)
Alison MacLeod Unexploded (Hamish Hamilton)
Colum McCann TransAtlantic (Bloomsbury)
Charlotte Mendelson Almost English (Mantle)
Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being (Canongate)
Donal Ryan The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland)
Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary (Viking)
